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Some health clinics are taking an unusual approach to healthcare: They are involving lawyers. Specifically, they incorporate legal assistance into their medical practices for patients facing evictions or deportation proceedings, among other legal woes. Colorado is one such state, and the state's Medicaid program helps fund the initiative. The goal of clinics like these is to reduce toxic stress and keep families intact, on the premise that it will serve their health for years to come. The Colorado program featured in the article is one of 450 existing medical-legal partnerships across the nation that typically serve impoverished people and immigrants. All the issues that people are struggling with during the pandemic are all the same issues that medical-legal partnerships have been trying to work with forever, said Vicki Gerard, law professor and co-director of the Georgetown University Health Justice Alliance.
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